You Talk About What You Love!

The Lord has really been challenging me this week about where my heart is and what I talk about.
and my Mom use to tell us kiddo's all the time when we were little " You Talk About What You Love."

and you know the more I think about it it's so TRUE.

 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.”

Proverbs 4:23

My Precious Family !

What is in your heart is sometime going to come out through your mouth. and from that our actions and how we go about our daily lives, how we treat our husbands, how we love our children, even how we decorate our homes.

So as you go about your week ask your self

" What do I REALLY love and how do I show it?"

 I know for me that I love God's word.

But to be 100% honest with you it's hard to sit and read it.  that's hard for me to share with you. I'm a  Pastors wife. why is it hard for me?

I just don't MAKE enough time for it. that's has simple as I can put it. and it's so humbling for me to see it put into words, but it's the truth.

So that's one of my Goals for 2012 is to MAKE time to be in the Word daily and glean from it all that the Lord has for me!

Ok.... :)

next!!

 I love baking and cooking, if I have help with the clean up :) and you can always use it to share with others in need too!

baking and cooking!!

 I wanted to share with you just a couple things that I love!!!


There is so much to fill our time with these days and I pray that you will fill it with things that will last for eternity, and the bring the Lord glory.
But what do you Talk about? Be so careful, " You often Talk About What You Love" 
 
Have a Blessed Week!

Elhanna Joy!

This has been a crazy week for our little family everyone got the flu bug and so with that y'all know how the house falls apart when Mama gets sick.... well that sure was the case here.

So this week it's my goal to get all caught up on our blogging!! so with all that said here is a blog all about our little Lanna girl!!

Elhanna Joy!!!

She has become quite the Little Lady in the past few weeks and months.

She is 3 1/2, and so ready to be 4. she often reminds us that she is going to be "4 to be BIG like Bubby." but the funny thing is, she is just about as tall as Liam. 

She Loves her babies and has given each one a name, we often find her tucked in her room playing
"Mommy" nursing all 6 of them. and singing them sweet little songs.  and when she's done with that she tucks them all into their beds. I love to see how her Mothering instincts have begin and I'm excited to lead her now  towards being "Lord willing" a godly wife and mother some day. 



See even her baby needs a ride on the silly carts!

She is such a sweetie and a good helper, but I do have to say that she is not always a morning person, we're working on that one! :)
 

What a blessing she is to have in our family, and a joy to be lent to us by the Lord for such a short time.
We love you Lanna Joy!

We pray nightly in our family devotions, that with all our little "arrows" that the Lord is finding us faithful in teaching, leading, guiding and instructing them for His glory so that someday soon, He will call each of them to Himself, to the saving knowledge of who He is and repent of their sins, and serve Him to the fullest all the rest of their days here on earth!!! So that to when they are older He can send them out to the mission field, or where ever He see fit to send them.

Liam Ross

Liam Ross

He is such a busy and helpful little guy. always waning to go outside to collect fire starter for us.
He is in the last few months of being 4. :(  He is so ready to be "5" so that he can be in kidz chior at church!!!
We are so blessed to have Liam in our family!!!
Love you Bubby!!!

Aiden

This week I thought I'd do a little update on our Kiddo's for the Grandparents and our family far away!

  

Aiden Macsheyne 

It's hard to believe that he turned 21 months this past week.

time has gone by way to fast.

 1 month old

                                                                         5 months old.



                                                                        21 months old!!!




 He is such a sweet little guy,

he loves to play by himself...  he has just a funny little wiggle run... he loves to sing the B.I.B.L.E...

he starting to be potty trained and is doing well... he loves to play farm...  he loves to take baths... he is starting to be interested in books... he loves his Dadda, and looks forward to his coming home each evening.

he can say... Dadda, Mama, Liam, Lanna, ball, dog, baby and eat just to name a few.

We are so blessed to have him in our family and can't believe that soon it will be 2 years that the Lord gave him to us to raise for His glory. 

We love you Aiden Macsheyne!

Have a Blessed day!!!

Loving our Husbands!



My Blessing!!!



Over the past year the Lord has been teaching about how to Love Jon. and with being married for 6 1/2 years now I have a long way to go! but I'm slowly learning how to love him in a way that Honors the Lord.

One of my prayers for 2012 is that the Lord would take me to a much deeper level of loving him and in that showing our children how to love God too!

Here is just a few ways that I've determined that I'm going to work on it this year.

I've gone to the Word to look for some help,

What better place to look?

How Do I???

* I respect him?  Eph. 5:33

* I physically love him? 1 Cor. 7:3~5
* Praise him? Proverbs 12:25

* Honor him? Titus 2:4

* Pray for him daily? James 5:16 & Eph. 6:18

 I was so encouraged by looking through the Word a find answers that I can work towards, did you see that I didn't say Do. but work towards!! it's a process, and I'm so excited to get started!!!

Sometimes the Proverbs 31 Woman that I so long to be seems like a Superhuman, and unreal. and to be honest IMPOSSIBLE!!! She is always on her toes and is up before daylight, and never worries about tomorrow cause she's got it all together. :)

But you know we have the same 24 hours in our day that she did, and by the Holy Spirit's help " I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength" ( Phil 4:13) 

So I've stared down a path to wanting to honor the Lord even more by loving my Sweet Hubby!!

Will you strive with me to begin the journey to Love the man that the Lord has blessed you with in your life. and to be the "helpmate" that He desires you to be?

Money saving tips!!!

This morning I don't have lots of time to share so I thought I'd do 3 little post of things that we we around our home to save $.
 Some of them are tried and tested, and some I'm yet to try. but that I heard from friends that work well and can't wait to try!!!

1. Vinegar Dishwasher rinse. Love it!!

If you’ve been wanting a way to cut costs on dishwasher rinse aid… here’s a great frugal alternative:
White Vinegar!
That’s it! Rather than using expensive rinse agents, simply fill your rinse aid dispenser with white vinegar. Vinegar does a great job at removing spots and disinfecting, too!

2. Yummy smelling house. Love it!
 Essential oils can be dabbed onto a cotton ball and tucked around the house. I use different scents for different seasons, like Lemongrass and Grapefruit… or Orange.”

 When it's dry in our house because of the wood stove I add a few drops of oil to our vaporizer!

3.Homemade Glass Cleaner  (yet to try!)

1 cup Water
1/4 cup White Vinegar
2 to 3 drops Dawn Dish Soap
Empty Spray Bottle

Combine water, white vinegar, and dawn dish soap in an empty spray bottle, and… that’s it! You’ve just made Homemade Glass Cleaner!



Well I'm off to get my hungry Crew some breakfast!
Blessings!

Pay It Forward 2012!!

This looks really fun....go ahead friends, inspire me to make you something!




simple is good!



Pay It Forward 2012: I promise to make something handmade for first 2 people who comment. They must in turn post this on there blog or face book page and make something for the first 5  people who comment on their post. The rules are it has to be handmade by you and they must receive it before 2012 ends!! it can be as simple as making a cup of coffee or tea for someone! this is a fun way just to get the giving spirit going this year.

 Your probably wondering why just 2? I did this on Face Book too and got my first 3 comments, and wanted to open it up to you my faithful followers too!

Thanks so much! Can't wait to get busy with making something fun for our friends!

Blessings!